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The Fury Survey

The day after discontented Massachusetts voters sent a Republican to the Senate for the first time since the seventies, we polled a random (but apparently quite liberal) sample of 100 pedestrians at the corner of Houston and Varick Streets to see what’s getting the goat of our unruly populace.

Should Wall Street institutions that received federal aid be specially taxed?
• Yes—they’d be out of business without taxpayers: 74
• No—don’t punish them for turning themselves around: 19

How would you feel if health-care reform were killed?
• It would be a tragedy: 68
• I wouldn’t care, it wasn’t going to help me anyway: 10
• I wouldn’t care, the bill was too compromised to work: 7
• I always opposed it: 7

Increasing the military presence in Afghanistan is …• The only way to redeem the situation: 33
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Just going to lead to more useless death and debt: 58

Have you given money to Haiti relief efforts?
• Yes: 44 • No: 56

How do you feel about Kirsten Gillibrand and her potential primary challenger, Harold Ford Jr.?• I don’t know much about either of them: 61• Gillibrand is fine, why do we need to replace her?: 6• Why does a guy who just moved from Tennessee for a big Wall Street job think he can represent New York?: 19
• I’ll give him a chance: 4

Are you personally angrier than ever about the state of the world?• Yes: 51 • No: 47